Presenting the Text: Pictorial Tradition in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Hardman, Phillipa.
Presenting the Text: Pictorial Tradition in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 37-72.
- Description
- Focuses on the ordinatio and implications of illustrations to CT (apart from those in the Ellesmere MS): the "generic 'author' image" found in MS Lansdowne 851, MS Bodley 686, and the "Devonshire" MS; the portrait of the Friar in MS Rawlinson poet. 223; the "possibly Ellesmere-derived" pilgrims in Cambridge University Library Gg.4.27 and the "Oxford" MS; and the sins and virtues in CUL Gg.4.27. Generally, these illustrations convey to the reader a sense of oral delivery.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.